oxaloacetic acid

1. 1.

   an acid formed by oxidation of maleic acid (as in metabolism of fats and carbohydrates)

   Synonymsoxalacetic acid

   Broaderacid

Questions about oxaloacetic acid

What does oxaloacetic acid mean?

oxaloacetic acid means "an acid formed by oxidation of maleic acid (as in metabolism of fats and carbohydrates)".

What is another word for oxaloacetic acid?

Close synonyms include oxalacetic acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is oxaloacetic acid a common word?

oxaloacetic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.